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Real-time Analytics with Storm and Cassandra

By : Shilpi Saxena
Book Image

Real-time Analytics with Storm and Cassandra

By: Shilpi Saxena

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Real-time Analytics with Storm and Cassandra
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Quiz time


Q.1. State whether the following statements are true or false:

  1. Cassandra has a default consistency of ALL.

  2. QUORUM is the consistency level that provides the highest availability.

  3. Cassandra uses a snitch to identify the closeness of the nodes.

  4. Cassandra reads and writes features have consistency level 1 by default.

Q.2. Fill in the blanks:

  1. _______________ is used to determine the physical closeness of the nodes.

  2. _______________ is the consistency that provides the highest availability and lowest availability.

  3. The ___________ is the service that ensures that a node, which has been down for a while, is correctly updated with the latest changes.

Q.3. Execute the following use case to see Cassandra high availability and replications:

  1. Create a four-node Cassandra cluster.

  2. Create a keyspace with a replication factor of 3.

  3. Add some data into a column family under this keyspace.

  4. Attempt to retrieve data using read consistency with using ALL in select query.

  5. Shut down the Cassandra daemon on one node...